Wednesday, May 04, 2011

bird migration

These are Betty's sparrows , she had a photo of one and I had a chicken pen full a few days later. I found this post on one of the web sites I read everyday. I often find birds in my yard a few days after Betty mentions seeing them at her feeder in the spring but I have not spotted her yellow finches yet.

They look kind of like house sparrows, maybe a tad bigger, with black and white striped heads, a broadish white stripe right down the middle of the head. Tempio post from Michigan.I searched and found it is white crowned sparrow and found it lived in Canada and the Western USA so My flock has gone and I suppose they are in Michigan now on their way to Canada. I learned they are a rare bird in our area.